Submitted Materials

...which collectively are referred to as "the Submission". We
request the Submission be known as the Web Forms 2.0
Submission.

Abstract

This specification defines Web Forms 2.0, a backwards
compatible extension to the forms features found in HTML 4.01's
Forms chapter and the corresponding DOM 2 HTML interfaces. Web Forms
2.0 applies to both HTML and XHTML user agents. It provides new
strongly-typed input fields, new attributes for defining
constraints, a repeating model for declarative repeating of form
sections, new DOM interfaces, new DOM events for validation and
dependency tracking, and XML submission and initialization of forms.
It also standardises and codifies existing practice in areas that
have not been previously documented, and clarifies some of the
interactions of HTML form controls and CSS.

HTML4, XHTML1.1, and the DOM are thus extended in a manner that
has a clear migration path from existing HTML forms, leveraging the
knowledge authors have built up with their experience with HTML so
far.

Intellectual Property Statements

Copyrights

Opera and Mozilla hereby grant to the W3C, a perpetual,
nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any
Opera and Mozilla copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish
and distribute the contribution under the W3C
document licenses.

Additionally, should the Submission be used as a contribution
towards a W3C Activity, Opera and Mozilla grant a right and license
of the same scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and
based on, or incorporating all or part of, the contribution. Opera
and Mozilla further agrees that any derivative works of this
contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the
W3C.

If the Submission does not form the basis for future work by W3C,
change control of WebForms 2.0 shall remain with the Submitters.

Trade and Service Marks

Opera and Mozilla agree that the trade and service marks that are
associated with and identify this specific Submission (Web Forms
2.0) will be governed by the W3C
Trademark and Servicemark License.

Patents

Opera and Mozilla agree to offer licenses according to the W3C
Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section
5 of the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of
the Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C
Recommendation.

Suggested action

We suggest that the Consortium publish the submission as a Note.
Further, we suggest that the Consortium use this work as the basis
for an update to the HTML4 and XHTML1 specifications.

Resources

To help with this work, Opera expects to be able to provide one
non-resident document editor to the Consortium.

Contact

Technical inquiries about this Submission should be directed to
the editor or to the mailing list through
which the work was created. Other inquiries should be sent to the
undersigned.